Author Archive: Retro

Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray’s unwanted advances.

Singer encounters pirates when she stows away on Carey’s freighter to avoid a murder rap. Dir. Frank Strayer.

Massie is a fugitive from justice and Marion turns in a killer.

Tragedy strikes when young newlyweds adopt a child. Dir. Carol Reed.

The British sleuth (John Howard) enters a castle of horrors and catches a man of many faces (Leo G. Carroll).

Comedy on campus as mild-mannered Joe E. Brown becomes a football star after accidently ingesting a serum which gives him super-strength. Trouble arises when it wears off right before a wrestling match with Man Mountain Dean. Dir. Edward Sedgwick.

Out of Singapore is a 1932 American drama film directed by Charles Hutchison. The film was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1941 as Gangsters of the Sea

Von Stroheim as a soft-hearted border guard who arbitrarily detains an Austrian immigrant. Dir. Ray Taylor.

Vivid account of people’s lives amidst the Spanish Civil War of 1935.